Category: History Publisher: Anita Wills
ISBN-10: B0BKHW4B7J
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 264
Copyright: October 19, 2022
ISBN-13: 9798599434689
The Native People of the North and Southeastern United States were displaced by Any Means Necessary. This is a book that seeks to clarify the history of the Natives whose land and lives were stolen.
The Minqua Unami Okehocking & The Down River Nations is historical in that those who here when Europeans arrived are centered. Ms. Wills documented her family history that spans thousands of years back to Spain in Europe Mali in Africa and Columbia South America. In the pages of Minqua Unami Okehocking is a continuation of the history and historical figures entangled in her lines. Minqua Unami Ockehocking & The Down River Nations tells of the Indigenous People who occupied the North and Southeastern regions of what is now America.
Ms. Wills ancestors occupied the region for at least 10,000 years before Colonization. In 1692 several members of the Manokin Tribe lived in what is now Somerset County Maryland. In Pennsylvania the Susquehanna were labeled Minqua by European Settlers. In Virginia the Natives were under siege as were the Susquehanna and Iroquois in the North. They lived near rivers and waterways and were the Up River and Down River Nations whose waterways were Super Highways. In what is now North Carolina Jane (the Elder) Gipson an Indian woman saw her dark skinned children enslaved by Gordon Lightfoot. The Nanzattico were sent as slaves to Antiqua in 1704. The Minqua Unami and Okehocking were written about by Europeans who had first contact with them. In Pennsylvania they were Tributary to the Iroquois under Queen Aliquippa who was on a First name Basis with George Washington and William Penn. It was she who negotiated with William Penn for the return of Native Lands in Pennsylvania.
When European settlers entered the colony there were no States or Union only Native Villages and land which existed for for thousands of years. This book encompasses the Indigenous People of Eastern Woodlands who were pushed off their lands. It was the Iroquoian Queen Aliquippa who negotiated with William Penn for 500 acres of that Land in what is now Chester and Delaware County. She negotiated with Penn for 10000 acres in Conestoga Manor. In the meantime Ships arriving from Europe were landing and those leaving the ships held pieces of paper that gave them rights to stolen land. The Land Queen Aliquippa negotiated with William Penn now sits in Delaware Chester and Lancaster County and is the Okehocking Tract and Conestoga Manor Tracts. Although Pennsylvania does not have Reservations the natives continued to live on or around their land. Some became Christians and intermixed in the Free Black and/or white Community. They were designated as white Colored Negro and then Black by white census takers. There was a massacre of the Conestoga in 1765 and no one was ever charged or held accountable.
In what the Author refers to "Silence of the Lambs" In 1765 Conestoga Indians including women and children were massacred in the Lancaster County Jail. This is their story which has been hidden in an attempt to justify the taking of their history land and lives. Many of the descendants of the Native continue to live in and around the region and are renters or holding mortgages on the land of their ancestors. Paper Genocide was committed when Natives racial identification was changed to Mulatto Colored Negro and/or White. This was the category that many of the Eastern Woodlands fell under including the Author's family. The Nanzattico (Nantaughtacund) were the oldest tribe in Virginia and in 1704 the entire adult population was sent as slaves to Antiqua. At the same time the children under 12 were sentenced to serve Indentures for 25 years. This is the story of Natives who were relegated to slave status removal faced forced assimilation and murdered for land and Mineral Rights. This is similar to the Critical Race Theory (CRT) that has been hidden and is now coming to light.
Excerpt
CHAPTER ONE
OUR LAND OUR STORY
OUR HISTORY
“Whole Indian Nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers.” Dragging Canoe 1776”
Feel a need to interject here that as I have been researching and documenting my ancestral lines I do not run into much outward opposition. But there are the Gatekeepers there to protect the narrative that has allowed our people to be landless and disenfranchised in our own homeland. They are not the usual suspects some of them look like us but owe their allegiance to the powers that be. They show up and pretend to support but are backstabbing sale outs. If the shoe fits wear it! “For What Does It Profit A Man (or woman) to Gain the World and lose their soul…,”
We live in a Country that calls itself the greatest Country the World has ever seen. Yet no mention is made of how it was possible for them to reach that greatest. There is no mention of the Wars or the Colonialism and Neo Colonialism. They ignore the Empires that existed prior to Colonization here in the Americas in Africa Asia and the Middle East.
No mention that the wealth America claims was built on stolen native lands with stolen African labor. That is the basis of America where the same people who benefitted from free land and labor will call anyone who seeks equal distribution of the stolen land and wealth a Socialist. That is the very definition of
Americus Vespucci sailed before Columbus and helped to outfit Columbus’ third voyage. He outfitted his own voyage to look for
the Indian subcontinent (which had eluded Columbus). He
sailed in 1499, seven years after Columbus first landed in the
West Indies. Vespucci made trips in 1499 and 1502, and a third in 1503. There was a race to find the “Indian” Continent between these two who were both funded by the “Holy” Roman Empire.
As Indigenous to this land, our heritage was hijacked by foreign invaders who forced upon our ancestors a foreign religion, a foreign language, and a foreign name. The invading Europeans violently forced their culture upon our ancestors, the
original Natives, while also determined to annihilate them
culture, spiritual life, language, and, in fact, their very existence. America was born on our land. We were here thousands of years before there was an America.
The original name of this continent is Camanchaca or Turtle Island, as well as other Native names. In that sense, the native peoples of this continent are not "American", but indigenous. America is a European construct, one not native to our land. American is not a race or ethnicity. It is a nationality, proving only where one was born and is not a racial designation. Settlers who come here and claim they are “American” denying their ancestral History and instead claim to be American A
Country that was Colonized about 500 years ago.
The Borderline Anti-Memory PastBook asks questions a diary does not ask and raises the questions to dialectics and answers them in a way a memory work does not answer questions.
